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How will you vote in the 2024 UK General Election?

  • Conservative Party

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Labour Party

    Votes: 14 48.3%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Other (Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland)

    Votes: 1 3.4%

  • Other Independents

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other Parties

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Spoiled Ballot

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Will Not/Cannot Vote

    Votes: 8 27.6%
  • Total voters
    29
  • Poll closed .
I thought, for a brief second, that this was taken out of context and that maybe, maybe, he simply meant that there shouldn't be any law stopping people blacking up.

"Is any white man blacking up his face and pretending to be a black man of its nature offensive?", to which he robustly answered: "I don't think it is, no. We have really gone too far with all of this.
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Uh.. no. Not that then.
 
I know the area well, and we've always joked the locals are a bit weird, but this really is above and beyond what we'd expect of them!
 
Not to put a fine point on it, but that is pretty 🤬 up.

If I had to guess how the sicko died in police custody, the taser plus the cocaine in his system must have done a serious number on his heart.

But we don't know how much coke was in his system so my guess is just that at the moment.
 
Can US bug experts help out with this? I'm confused reading this story of Britain's pending invasion by the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug.

The pictures appear to be of two completely different species with the top one apparently showing them playing football.

Is this bug as stinky as they say, does it genuinely reach "plague" proportions in the right meteo and which one of the two pics does it look like? Oh, and how do I kill it?
 
TenEightyOne
Can US bug experts help out with this? I'm confused reading this story of Britain's pending invasion by the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug.

The pictures appear to be of two completely different species with the top one apparently showing them playing football.

Is this bug as stinky as they say, does it genuinely reach "plague" proportions in the right meteo and which one of the two pics does it look like? Oh, and how do I kill it?
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Liquid
I thought stink bug was Americanese for green shield bugs?
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Apparently they all can emit an odor but the ones I know about are brown. And they're freaking everywhere, man. They weren't a big problem in the suburbs of Dayton where I used to live but I immediately noticed the problem here in downtown Columbus. My buddy had been complaining since he moved here. Finding them inside my apartment wasn't unusual and apparently Josh and his coworkers had to spend a few hours cleaning them out of his new workplace.

I personally have never smelled them and they don't really seem to cause a problem in the city. They just get everywhere and it's annoying. The threat of stink makes you weary.

Anyways, glad I could help. I actually wandered into this thread because I received a package from Surrey and made an interesting observation: Your manila envelopes are weird.

Ours look like this. Whether it's a tiny folder, a big folder, a mailing envelope, a bubblewrap-lined shipping envelope, they are all this lovely golden-brown deep-fried-chicken color:

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But the one from Surrey is just yellow. What's the deal with that?
 
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A nice article about the political art of denial as Alan Johnson publicly isn't manoeuvring into position for what some see as the inevitable fall of Ed "Union's Revenge" Milliband.

There's a nice clip of Paxman taking the role of @Scaff against Michael Howard too :) (Apologies Scaff, it's a joke :) )

Source.
 
I opened that link expecting Paterson Joseph.
 
A pair of male paedophiles who were in a long relationship with each other killed a female partner after she threatened to expose their crimes. They are, as you'd expect, each serving prison sentences.

They're suing the Scottish Prison Service and Courts over being unable to see or communicate with each other claiming that this is a breach of their human rights. It's an interesting-if-very-nasty case which is being met with unsurprisingly-little sympathy.

BBC.
 
From true crime to politics, whatever amuses (or annoys) you most, BBC provides it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30140747#
UKIP's victory was in many ways even more impressive than their triumph in Clacton. The ease with which they demolished a 9,000 Tory majority was striking and this after the Conservatives had strained every sinew to halt the UKIP bandwagon.

UKIP now insists no Tory seat is safe and has suggested other Conservative MPs are more likely to defect.

For the Tories the result was not perhaps the meltdown they had feared and certainly there is no indication so far of panic or calls for Mr Cameron to go.

Senior Tories also believe they are poised to win back this seat at the general election.

For Labour not only was their share of the vote almost halved but there was also despair at the damaging tweet by their former shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry, seemingly mocking "white van man".

As for the Lib Dems, not only were they again overhauled by the Greens, but they secured a derisory 349 votes - their lowest total ever.
 
Dotini
Exactly what is it that your traditional parties have done so very wrong that the UK is now vulnerable to the appeal of Reckless and Fartage?
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Waste time with partisan nonsense whilst having the simultaneous appeal of an unlubricated colonoscopy followed by a slap in the face.

I'd say that unlike the United States, Britain has had more of a history of third, fourth or fifth parties actually getting somewhere at various points in time. Both Irish Nationalists and Irish Unionists have, at various points in the past, been critical members of coalitions. We've even had Communist MPs.

We seem to be more likely to actually, for better or worse, move from the main two if need be.
 
Liquid
Waste time with partisan nonsense whilst having the simultaneous appeal of an unlubricated colonoscopy followed by a slap in the face.

I'd say that unlike the United States, Britain has had more of a history of third, fourth or fifth parties actually getting somewhere at various points in time. Both Irish Nationalists and Irish Unionists have, at various points in the past, been critical members of coalitions. We've even had Communist MPs.

We seem to be more likely to actually, for better or worse, move from the main two if need be.
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Are your needs really so great that Reckless and Fartage are appealing across all other parties?

In the US we have institutionalized a two-party system. Really, they are two sides of the same coin - the war party - from which no dissent is possible. You should be so lucky.
 
Dotini
Exactly what is it that your traditional parties have done so very wrong that the UK is now vulnerable to the appeal of Reckless and Fartage?
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I suspect that part of the reason that UKIP are finding more general appeal is that you could hardly get a cigarette paper between the two main parties now, and support for the Lib Dems (the 'third party') has imploded on the back of their massively unpopular decision to form a coalition with the Tories and thus promote David Cameron to PM. Concerns over Europe and intra-European immigration are hot topics right now too, and UKIP happen to be 'in the right place at the right time' with their anti-EU message. The Pro-EU main parties have a major problem when it comes to how to deal with unpopular laws/rules etc. that come from the EU, because they can't do anything about them - UKIP appear to offer an alternative, and as a result their support is burgeoning.
 
Dotini
Are your needs really so great that Reckless and Fartage are appealing across all other parties?
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Given that UKIP are worming their way into Conservative woodwork, I can't really say. I've said in the past that with all the farce, bile, rubbish and tripe that follows UKIP like a bad smell, I honestly have no idea who is paying attention to them and giving them credence.

We're in a similar boat; politicians looking out for control, rather than representation, of the people. Such is the nature of partisan politics. And as @Touring Mars says, even though we have a richer history of party dichotomy, it's waning every damn year.
 
Touring Mars
The Pro-EU main parties have a major problem when it comes to how to deal with unpopular laws/rules etc. that come from the EU, because they can't do anything about them - UKIP appear to offer an alternative, and as a result their support is burgeoning.
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That makes some sense. That the EU now seems to be going back down the path of economic recession and a new cold war with Russia cannot be helping. The main parties seem to have tied your boat to a gigantic anchor.
 
Dotini
That makes some sense. That the EU now seems to be going back down the path of economic recession and a new cold war with Russia cannot be helping.
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The first of those would likely affect the UK regardless of EU membership and that we still have the £ rather than the Euro is a bigger factor, the second of those have almost nothing at all to do with EU membership, but rather NATO membership.

Many of the 'issues' with EU laws actually comes down to how the UK chooses to implement them and/or inaccurate reporting of the laws in the UK (anti-EU) press.


Dotini
The main parties seem to have tied your boat to a gigantic anchor.
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With UKIP's solution to remove the anchor by blowing a hole in the bottom of the boat.
 

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